"cops"

it's a hot summer night
and the red and the blue dance in frenzy of light
two men stand like like pillars of salt in the street
they're poor and they're black and they both say they have the HIV
one's dressed like a woman but you can see he's a man
the other has been stabbed in the arm and he's mad
they both claim they're in love
and though its hard to see, maybe they are
but they seem so desperate, and covered in sweat
the cops, they just shake their heads
and wonder how two beating hearts became this